By Fazlur Rahman
"In this paintings, Professor Fazlur Rahman provides a absolutely formidable blueprint for the transformation of the highbrow culture of Islam: theology, ethics, philosophy and jurisprudence. Over the voices advocating a go back to Islam or the reestablishment of the Sharia, the consultant for motion, he astutely and soberly asks: What and which Islam? extra importantly, how does one get to 'normative' Islam? the writer counsels, and passionately demonstrates, that for Islam to be truly what Muslims declare it to be—comprehensive in scope and efficacious for each age and place—Muslim students and educationists needs to reevaluate their method and hermeneutics. In spelling out the mandatory and sound technique, he's without delay brave, severe and profound."—Wadi Z. Haddad, American-Arab Affairs
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